Immortal said:
Your "clueless soccer moms and grandparents" comment seems to show that your argument stems from emotion and not analysis, though. Since you evidently don't find the Wii U appealing, you either don't want other people to find it appealing or think that everyone thinks like you (and those who don't are clueless morons). They really don't, though. While Wii's audience wasn't the traditional 10-20-year-old male audience, you're being unnecessarily belittling by saying that its new audience was a bunch clueless people who were tricked into buying it. If people didn't willfully buy and then enjoy the Wii, its word-of-mouth wouldn't have been so strong and it never would have become so popular. The fact that you're trying to deny and make excuses for this shows that you're really unnecessarily emotionally invested in this and that you're making these predictions against NSMB not so much because you think they are likely to happen, but rather because you want them to. ...looks like I'm venturing far too off-topic here. I guess we'll just keep an eye on how things pan out for NSMB2/U, huh? ;) |
Maybe you should take a few psychology courses before trying to psychoanalyze me. I don't want the Wii U to fail, nor do I want 2D Mario to fail. But I will admit that what I believe is based on what I see. The people who bought Wii and made it a huge success did so because it was fad. They told their friends about it and everyone had fun with Wii Sports. Some may have even bought their little ones some real games like NSMB and others bought the Wii with NSMB and played Wii Sports without opening NSMB. What I saw was a lot of nontraditional gamers like soccer moms and grandparents who never bought a video game console for themselves before and who have no need to buy another. They either still have Wii Sports or they gave it away before the fad ended. Very few of those people, the ones that made the Wii such a success, will buy a Wii U. But you know who will buy a Wii U. People like me who have been playing Nintendo games since before there was a NES, back when you could play Donkey Kong and Mario Bros on an Atari. We are waiting for Nintendo to give us what we want. I believe that NSMB, as a series, has saturated the market. It will still sell fine, but it's not selling systems like a 3D Mario, Zelda, Mario Kart and Metroid Prime would.
...but yeah, keep an eye on it and watch what happens sound like the thing to do.